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Tudor Proclamations. Laws against excess of apparel. Hughes, Paul L., and James F. Larkin (Eds.) Tudor Royal Proclamations. 3 vols. New Haven: Yale UP, 1964-69. Print. Proclamations & Revisions during Queen Elizabeth’s Reign. 1559, 1562, 1566, 1572, 1564, 1577 Revisions deal with:
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Tudor Proclamations Laws against excess of apparel Hughes, Paul L., and James F. Larkin (Eds.) Tudor Royal Proclamations. 3 vols. New Haven: Yale UP, 1964-69. Print.
Proclamations & Revisions during Queen Elizabeth’s Reign • 1559, 1562, 1566, 1572, 1564, 1577 • Revisions deal with: • Providing more precise detail, exceptions, clarifications • Loosening up some restrictions • Reasons for the restrictions • Enforcement of laws • Consequences for breaking laws • New fashions
“And for the reformation of the use of the monstrous and outrageous greatness of hose, crept alate into the realm to the great slander thereof, and the undoing of a number using the same, being driven for the maintenance thereof to seek such unlawful ways as by their own confession have brought them to destruction.” (189)
Malvolio: Having been three months married to her, sitting in my state— Calling my officers about me, in my branched velvet gown, having come from a daybed, where I have left Olivia sleeping— “Branched”